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Movement conservatives like Newt are very adept at talking around their far-out beliefs in a way that almost makes them seem reasonable. They know how to manage the language and play it like an instrument. His tone is muted, never going off pitch and always in control. That's their edge. Karl Rove does it as well.

Gingrich, who has changed his religion almost as much as his wives then uses God to justify his odious assertions about the President and what he calls his "secular-socialist machine."

Gingrich was a bit surprised, methinks, that Wallace called him out on his "wildly over the top" attacks on Obama and I think it's because Newt is parroting the exact same beliefs as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the Teas Partiers which have caused quite a bit of unrest for the GOP elders. And yet, Gingrich is one of the elders---never forget that.

That take is pretty much over the top. Gingrich is a "last generation conservative." He can fire up a crowd --- recall my coverage of his American Solutions talk in February --- but I can't imagine too many tea partiers drooling at the chance to share a couch with Nancy Pelosi to talk up Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" global warming campaign. Gingrich is obviously gearing up for the 2012 GOP primaries, and last I heard he was still pushing for the GOP to be the "party of yes." But man, no doubt he'll be livin' down some of his famous bipartisanship over the next 18 months. One "Maverick" GOP presidential nominee is enough:

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Gingrich is not my cup of tea at all---he's Charlie Crist with an up-country accent and a history degree. Better than Crist, but hardly dependable.

But the chattering-class trailer-trash socialists at C&L demonstrate in the comments section that an entire Marxist lumpenprole underclass that believes the Constitution is simply a series of entitlements to a risk-free, work-free life hate Gingrich and believe that ANY OPPOSITION to Obama's rapid social mandates and beggaring by increased taxation is "seditious," in the words of one semi-literate loon.

I for one served in Vietnam as a CORDS advisor [my two predecessors were medevaced out & one in the Tet offensive with my job, a young Stanford grad, was killed]. I was trained, despite my civilian status, to use every weapon in the US Army's handgun and rifle arsenal.

I also made it to the Iraq War of 1990-91. I'm gonna start polishing up my firearms skills because there are a lot of home-grown Al-Qaeda slackers, dopers, and layabouts too bored to get a job and too willing to spend other peoples' money to support their otiose life-styles.

[P.S.: Just for laughs, you should check out a letter to The New Yorker by Perfesser "William Ayers" concerning terrorism and how we shouldn't get so excited about it!]